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4.5 Omegas
I've not noticed any threads about the latest Omega drivers. They seem
stable enough but don't make much of a difference for me (no problems before and no problems after, so I shouldn't grumble). The update seems to be aimed at fixing problems with other people's cards (mobility Radeons etc.) -- Julian Richards computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk XP Home L7S7A2 motherboard Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers 1 GB RAM 10 GB + 80 GB HDs CD+DVD/CDRW drives |
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On 5/19/2004 5:14 AM Julian Richards brightened our day with:
I've not noticed any threads about the latest Omega drivers. They seem stable enough but don't make much of a difference for me (no problems before and no problems after, so I shouldn't grumble). The update seems to be aimed at fixing problems with other people's cards (mobility Radeons etc.) -- Why the heck are they in CAB file format? -- "I'm not made of money, we'll swim to Oakland" Steve [Inglo] |
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On Wed, 19 May 2004 16:15:26 GMT, Inglo
wrote: Why the heck are they in CAB file format? Apparently to keep the size down. Some of the download mirrors can be notoriously slow and many people are still on dialup. -- Julian Richards computer "at" richardsuk.f9.co.uk XP Home L7S7A2 motherboard Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines 438/364 with Omega drivers 1 GB RAM 10 GB + 80 GB HDs CD+DVD/CDRW drives |
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Inglo wrote in message . com...
On 5/19/2004 5:14 AM Julian Richards brightened our day with: I've not noticed any threads about the latest Omega drivers. They seem stable enough but don't make much of a difference for me (no problems before and no problems after, so I shouldn't grumble). The update seems to be aimed at fixing problems with other people's cards (mobility Radeons etc.) -- Why the heck are they in CAB file format? Will CAB is a compression format standardly inbuild in windows. And the cab is 16-17Mb while the EXE once extracted is 19Mb ...so it does work! |
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Throw in the .ace 2.0 format
As for .cab, it is owned by microsoft. I think that's got to do with not much distributions. "Allan Sheely" wrote in message ... On 20 May 2004 02:21:20 -0700, (Dark Avenger) wrote: Will CAB is a compression format standardly inbuild in windows. And the cab is 16-17Mb while the EXE once extracted is 19Mb ...so it does work! I just compressed the exe into zip and rar to see the difference. zip=18.6mb rar=16.8mb cab=16.8mb Considering that everyone has .cab file support built into windows it's surprising that more people don't use .cab. |
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Allan Sheely wrote in message . ..
On 20 May 2004 02:21:20 -0700, (Dark Avenger) wrote: Will CAB is a compression format standardly inbuild in windows. And the cab is 16-17Mb while the EXE once extracted is 19Mb ...so it does work! I just compressed the exe into zip and rar to see the difference. zip=18.6mb rar=16.8mb cab=16.8mb Considering that everyone has .cab file support built into windows it's surprising that more people don't use .cab. Lets Try Uharc ALZ:3 ( maximum but oh so ... long wait ) = 16.8Mb ... well I guess that proves that the EXE file can downsized unto about 16.8mb Ya know, all those compression tools use different algoritms and work better on different kind of files. Uharc for instance is great for compression certain media and ..indeed for Games and alike... Here is a review online http://www.flexbeta.net/main/article...ge=1&pagenum=1 |
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http://www.flexbeta.net/main/article...ge=1&pagenum=1
I got hold of an office 2003 disk (copy) that has every office application on the one CD, extracting isn't successful as many files fail to copy, but when you have most of the files on the hdd, it amounts to 1.5gig from a 650mb disk, you can view the files and install correctly, so what kind of compression is used here? its invisible compression that acts on the fly as you use the files... You did use that option "leave installation files on disk" in that case most of the 650Mb of the CD stays as copy on your harddisk for when office needs a function, so it's 1500Mb - 650Mb = 950Mb for office installation... That brings back things in reference! |
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Quoth The Raven "Dark Avenger" in
http://www.flexbeta.net/main/article...ge=1&pagenum=1 I got hold of an office 2003 disk (copy) that has every office application on the one CD, extracting isn't successful as many files fail to copy, but when you have most of the files on the hdd, it amounts to 1.5gig from a 650mb disk, you can view the files and install correctly, so what kind of compression is used here? its invisible compression that acts on the fly as you use the files... You did use that option "leave installation files on disk" in that case most of the 650Mb of the CD stays as copy on your harddisk for when office needs a function, so it's 1500Mb - 650Mb = 950Mb for office installation... That brings back things in reference! no-no, this was a pirate copy with all office 2003 applications jammed onto one disk, I attempted to copy it again for another friend, but no program would touch it, I manually dragged all the files onto my hard drive to drag back to a new disk, that failed too, but what I did retrieve was 1.5gig (off a 650mb cd) UltraISO managed to make a perfect iso and burn it mind you, but still, what kind of active compression could be at work here that makes identical files half there size without having to archive them? -- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has. Take out the _CURSEING to reply to me |
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